📚read about a 3rd of that Dirk Francis book 📚The Language Instinct (and a bath :D) 📚On the Narita Express: Tsuki no Kage, Kage no Umi 📚Ordered home automation/security book. V. excited. 📚25 Home Automation Projects for the Evil Genius 📚Failed my damn midterm. Cried about it. 📚Read a quarter of Flower Confidential by Amy Stewart. It‘s excellent! 📚Finished The Language Instinct 📚Started Murakami book; doubtful 📚Sarah got me a great book on contemporary cartoonists for our 9th anniversary. 📚Tales of the South Pacific 📚Tales of the South Pacific 📚Tales of the South Pacific 📚Tales of the South Pacific 📚Tales of the South Pacific 📚Tales of the South Pacific 📚Tales of the South Pacific 📚Most of the new \"Bitch\" magazine 📚Tales of the South Pacific 📚Tales of the South Pacific 📚Finished \"Purity of Blood\", the second Captain Alatriste novel. Excellent. I need to read more Spanish-language literature. 📚Tales of the South Pacific, while walking to work 📚Tales of the South Pacific 📚Tales of the South Pacific 📚Tales of the South Pacific 📚Tales of the South Pacific while walking home... walked into a sign 📚Reading lately: Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie and Tyrell by Coe Booth. 📚Tales of the South Pacific 📚Finished Tales of the South Pacific 📚Dark Knight Strikes Again 📚Michael Pollan: Unhappy Meals; I love this guy 📚Found a \"used\" copy of \"Mastering the Art of French Cooking\", with no spills or stains or anything. Score! 📚John Hodgman‘s \"Areas of My Expertise\" (except for some of the hobo names). Quite possibly the perfect book. 📚Finished \"The Omnivore‘s Dilemma\". It‘s not really an exaggeration to say that if you live in the U.S., and you eat food, you should read it. 📚Half-napping, half-reading Hawaii 📚\"Homicide: a Year on the Killing Streets\" by David Simon. I‘ve been reading it forever, and it never seems to end. 📚Hawaii; A Wizard of Earthsea out loud to the lady 📚Finishing \"Homicide: a Year on the Killing Streets\" FINALLY 📚Hawaii: No MacBook and new couch mean lots of reading :D 📚Finished \"1491\". Well-written, important, somewhat sad-making, enjoyable, and very informative. Highly recommended. 📚Sing \"Yesterday\" For Me 📚\"His Majesty‘s Dragon\", a cheesy concept (Napoleanic Wars, with dragons!) done to perfection. 📚read ouran high school host club over <3 read love egoist (<3!) at least 20 times :] 📚\"Throne of Jade\" by Naomi Novik. More dragony excellence. 📚Hawaii and Writing With Power 📚Finished Hawaii; 3 months and 960 pages; totally worth it 📚\"Black Powder War\" by Naomi Novik. Dragony excellence continues. 📚Sing Yesterday For Me vol 5 while waiting in line 📚Lounging around Dave‘s house reading, like I used to do when I was 11 📚\"Revelation Space\" by Alastair Reynolds. Very good hard sci-fi, with a liberal dose of horror. 📚The Heart is Deceitful Above all Things by J T LeRoy 📚Just finished \"La Perdida,\" and liked it okay. It wasn‘t all that like it was supposed to be. 📚Read a little bit of each of a lot of books at the bookstore 📚\"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time\" by Mark Haddon. Good. 📚Lots and lots of Harry Potter 📚\"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\". Every bus I‘ve taken this week has had several people reading it. 📚Woke up, read some Harry Potter. 📚A Deepness in the Sky; Vernor Vinge is the awesomest 📚\"The Sun over Breda\" by Arturo P√©rez-Reverte. Maybe my favorite so far? 📚\"Gates of Fire\" by Steven Pressfield. Intense. 📚\"Red Seas Under Red Skies\" by Scott Lynch. Excellent fun. 📚Finished A Deepness in the Sky; I would really like to read some short books now! 📚20th Century Boys volume 22 📚Finished 20th Century Boys volume 22; after all these years, it‘s over ;_; 📚The Space Merchants is getting really good 📚Finished The Space Merchants 📚\"Chasm City\" by Alastair Reynolds. Hard-sci-fi about drugs, identity, and paranoia, a la Philip K. Dick. Very good. 📚\"Nineteen Minutes\" by Jodi Picoult. It‘s so-so. 📚Tachiyomi at the new Barnes & Noble: Rush and Pearl Jam books 📚Nature via Nurture on the way to work 📚Nature via Nurture on the way to work 📚\"The Clan Corporate\" by Charles Stross. Not as enjoyable as previous books. 📚Stayed up late to finish ‚ÄúRedemption Ark‚Äù by Alastair Reynolds. Best of his novels so far. 📚Read Walking on Glass for several hours in the dark while listening to 80s CDs Andrew gave me 📚Up late reading Walking on Glass again 📚Finished Walking on Glass; I had hoped for more at the end 📚\"Absolution Gap\" by Alastair Reynolds. Started weird, and oh my God the terrible copyediting, and overall not quite as good as the previous, but still a very satisfying conclusion. 📚Hard-Boiled Blah Blah and the End of the Blah 📚\"The Great Gatsby\" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Wow. Great, great book. 📚\"The Devil in the White City\" by Erik Larsen. It‘s good! 📚Re-reading The Design of Everyday Things 📚Art of Interactive Design. Didn‘t finish it the first time, trying again. 📚\"Empire of Ivory\" by Naomi Novik. Are Napoleon and his dragons on the verge of conquering England!? 📚\"A Soul in a Bottle\" by Tim Powers. Like a standard Powers novel, the main character is an alcoholic who encounters the supernatural. 📚Picked up the first two Song of Ice and Fire for buddy in Japan; started rereading the first book while standing in the store 📚Flex 2 with Actionscript 3 📚A Game of Thrones; ohhhhhh, I‘m way back into it 📚Tearing through Flex/Actionscript 3 book 📚A Game of Thrones: even better the second time? 📚Universal Principles of Design 📚A Game of Thrones, until the NyQuil kicked in 📚Essential Actionscript 3.0 📚Put books into LibraryThing. Great site. 📚Essential Actionscript 3.0 slain. And by slain, I mean I flipped rapidly through the pages and have a pretty good sense of what it contains. 📚Loads of A Game of Thrones 📚So much A Game of Thrones 📚A numbing amount of design patterns 📚Finished A Game of Thrones for the second time 📚Read some of The Masked Rider, then picked up A Clash of Kings after all 📚\"Un Lun Dun\" by China Mi√©ville. Fun young teenagers‘ urban fantasy novel. 📚worked on finding certifications for later on in life. I‘m not sure if I‘m going to wait this year out of if I‘m going to go ahead and start with the studying. 📚went to get books today from the library. Had fun. Hopefully my interlibrary loans will come back with my books soon. I‘m excited! 📚today I‘ve spent quite a bit of time reading up on what I think I want to do for the rest of my life. I want to have it all finished by the time I‘m 30. Long explanation but I think its a good one. 📚Lots of A Clash of Kings... Can‘t get enough Arya 📚My back is bothering me but good news is that I have my books that I‘ve been waiting for. Finally. 📚major changes to act 2. little changes next! woohoo! 📚A Clash of Kings; four chapters tonight because I couldn‘t sleep 📚Getting pretty obsessed with A Song of Ice and Fire; definitely better the second time through 📚Finished ACoK and started A Storm of Swords 📚\"Why, oh why, my little siu mai, why do I love you so? What treasure hides, jing cha siu bao, pillowed in your dough?\" Over. And. Over. Again. 📚A Storm of Swords; the Unsullied are awesome 📚The trick to reading \"And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street\" is to realize that he mixes up the rhythm. 📚I‘ve had some trouble enjoying books for a few years. Today I got Steve Martin‘s Born Standing Up and voraciously tore through half of it in a day. 📚A Storm of Swords; the big thing happened 📚What is the What, by Dave Eggers 📚Up late with A Storm of Swords 📚A Storm of Swords; I barely remember all this huge stuff happening 📚Nearly finished A Storm of Swords but fell asleep during the Epilogue 📚A Feast for Crows... hard work to start with 3 chapters of previously unintroduced characters, and 4 chapters of sub-likeable characters 📚A Feast for Crows; yay, three likeable characters in a row! 📚A Feast for Crows is so painful to read. 📚A Feast for Crows... actually skipping chapters now... 📚A Feast for Crows; all the junk is worth it for the few chapters in Braavos 📚A Feast for Crows. Skipping hateful characters‘ chapters. 📚Longstreet‘s *Manassas to Gettysburg* 📚Finished *House of Abraham* 📚Internalizing *Complete Idiot‘s Guide to Genealogy\" 📚Started Danica McKellar‘s *Math Doesn‘t Suck* 📚\"Finished\" A Feast for Crows, having skipped about half of the chapters 📚Bought <em>Assassins‘ Gate</em> 📚The Commonsense Book of Wine 📚Began <em>Nine Parts of Desire</em> 📚\"How <em>Not</em> to Write a Novel\" 📚Began <em>God is Not Great</em> (audio) 📚Finished <em>Math Doesn‘t Such</em> 📚A Study in Scarlet, out loud 📚A Study in Scarlet, out loud 📚book: Neil Gaiman: Anansi Boys: r5: Excellent. Laughed out loud many times, and felt so happy at times my eyes watered. 📚book: Robert Kaplan: The Coming Anarchy: r5: Excellent book, may have given me a new way to look at the world. 📚Roadshow at BN; The Masked Rider; The Commonsense Book of Wine 📚A Study in Scarlet, out loud 📚A Study in Scarlet, out loud. Stayed up way too late reading The Masked Rider. 📚book: Charles Stross: Glass House: r4: Post singularity sci-fi. Interesting concepts, overall very good. 📚Finished A Study in Scarlet. Stayed up way too late with The Masked Rider again. 📚There‘s a new Elizabeth George novel. Available Tuesday 📚The Commonsense Book of Wine, The Masked Rider 📚Got Elizabeth George‘s *Careless in Red* 📚book: Jack McDevitt: Polaris: r3: Some excellent ideas and debates, but slow moving and some technological inconsistencies 📚Finished The Masked Rider 📚book:napoleon hill: Think and Grow Rich: r2: Some good content and ideas, but buried in a lot of words and capital letters. 📚Finished *Careless in Red* 📚Finished _God is Not Great_ (audio) 📚Finished *Speaking Truth to Power*, Anita Hill 📚Up wayyyyy too late reading Traveling Music 📚Tons more Traveling Music 📚Traveling Music; getting through this book so quickly 📚Read some more ‘Into the Wild‘ 📚Traveling Music, out on the patio 📚The Objective-C 2.0 Programming Language 📚Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, Edition 3. 1 and 2 were too hard for me, maybe 3 will be my magic number. 📚Feeling unwell and just plowing through Traveling Music 📚Finished Traveling Music. What a superb book! 📚Richard Feynman seems like a pretty cool guy. 📚Into the Wild. Spent a lot of time on trains today. 📚Jon Krakauer: Into the Wild: r4: Finished. Interesting story. Made me realize that I take some risks that I probably should not. 📚How the Mind Works... so much more satisfying than philosophy 📚Newton‘s Wake - train makes for much reading time. 📚„Éè„ÉÑ„Ç´„Éç„Ç∫„Éü„ÅÆÊôÇÈñì volume 3 📚„Éè„ÉÑ„Ç´„Éç„Ç∫„Éü„ÅÆÊôÇÈñì volume 3 📚Newton‘s Wake: r3: Finished. Enjoyable book. 📚Spin: just started. excellent. 📚„Éè„ÉÑ„Ç´„Éç„Ç∫„Éü„ÅÆÊôÇÈñì and Paradise Kiss 📚How the Mind Works... slow-going but good 📚Spin: Finished. Excellent, incredibly interesting and oddly plausible book. Sad that I am done with it. 📚Cocoa Programming for OS X: Chapter 12: getting back on with this after much slacking. 📚Finished Spook Country. Good Book. 📚Axis, the sequel to Spin. Good, but not as good. Yet. 📚Began Bugliosi‘s *The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder* 📚Heard Stephen King‘s *The Gingerbread Girl* 📚Reread \"The Dark Knight Returns\" by Frank Miller. Parts are dated, parts are still very good. 📚David Sedaris \"When Engulfed in Flames\" 📚\"Musicophilia\" by Oliver Sacks. Interesting, as are all of his books. 📚\"The World Without Us\" by Alan Weisman. Would have enjoyed it more if there hadn‘t been chunks repeating \"Guns, Germs, and Steel\" and \"Collapse\". It was simultaneously too short and lacking focus. 📚Finished How the Mind Works 📚A Shadow in Summer is pretty good so far 📚\"Achewood: The Great Outdoor Fight\" by Chris Onstad. A great way to reread the story, though I don‘t know if it makes any sense to people who don‘t already know the characters. 📚Read A Shadow in Summer all day 📚Read A Shadow in Summer all day 📚Laid around and read A Shadow in Summer all day 📚Finished A Shadow in Summer in 5 days. Haven‘t gotten through a book that fast in quite a while. 📚Finished old Grisham novel perchased on vacation. You run on, you crazy jury. 📚„ÅƄņ„ÇÅ„Ç´„É≥„Çø„ɺ„Éì„ɨ 📚„ÅƄņ„ÇÅ„Ç´„É≥„Çø„ɺ„Éì„ɨ 📚„ÅƄņ„ÇÅ„Ç´„É≥„Çø„ɺ„Éì„ɨ and The World Without Us 📚The World Without Us & „ÅƄņ„ÇÅ„Ç´„É≥„Çø„ɺ„Éì„ɨ 📚\"Case Histories\" by Kate Atkinson. Really excellent; highly recommended. 📚The Elements of Typographic Style and Anathem. I guess I am reading four books now. 📚The Elements of Typographic Style; Anathem 📚At this rate, Anathem could end up one of my favorite books ever. 📚Finished Anathem. Possible top fiver. 📚The Five Ages of the Universe 📚The Five Ages of the Universe; this book raises a ton of questions for me 📚„ÅƄņ„ÇÅ„Ç´„É≥„Çø„ɺ„Éì„ɨ 📚The Five Ages of the Universe, „ÅƄņ„ÇÅ„Ç´„É≥„Çø„ɺ„Éì„ɨ, A Winter Betrayal 📚„ÅƄņ„ÇÅ„Ç´„É≥„Çø„ɺ„Éì„ɨ and A Winter Betrayal 📚„ÅƄņ„ÇÅ„Ç´„É≥„Çø„ɺ„Éì„ɨ, A Betrayal in Winter 📚Nearly finish *You‘re Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger*. 📚Begin to re-read Bugliosi‘s *Outrage* (about Simpson murder trial). 📚Finished the Elements of Typographic Style 📚Began reading *Lost Christianities* 📚Listening to *Roads to Quoz* 📚Finished Bugliosi‘s *Outrage* 📚Very slowly getting through A Betrayal in Winter 📚\"The Man Who Knew Too Much\" by David Leavitt. Mixed feelings; did a great job humanizing Turing, but two major off-putting points.